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Summary

8 Workouts / 229 Exercises

45% Cardio / 55% Strength Training

Workout Program Description

During this phase, your goal should be to master each movement and finish the workouts in one piece. So for now, focus less on the amount of weight you are lifting and instead try to achieve your desired number of repetitions while maintaing strict form.

During this phase, your goal should be to master each movement and finish the workouts in one piece. So for now, focus less on the amount of weight you are lifting and instead try to achieve your desired number of repetitions while maintaing strict form.

Workouts

Chest and Back

Description

Superset two of the body's largest muscle groups for a lactic acid bath like no other! You'll be fully pumped five minutes into the program, and your muscles will beg for mercy the rest of the way. Your body will learn how to keep it together under duress as you struggle to meet your target number of reps during round two. And if you feel a little queasy after your set, at least you'll know you're not alone.

Reverse Grip Chin-UpGrasp bar with palms facing body. Pull up until chin clears bar. Lower arms to full extension and repeat. If necessary, modify with one foot on chair.Grasp bar with palms facing body. Pull up until chin clears bar. Lower arms to full extension and repeat. If necessary, modify with one foot on chair. (less)

Wide Fly Push-UpsExtend hands 3 inches wider on each side than standard push-up position.Extend hands 3 inches wider on each side than standard push-up position. (less)

Heavy PantsWith one foot forward and bent knees, bend at waist, keeping back flat. Lift weights from forward foot up to waist, keeping elbows close to sides.With one foot forward and bent knees, bend at waist, keeping back flat. Lift weights from forward foot up to waist, keeping elbows close to sides. (less)

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Cardio Workouts

Is anybody using this workout to record their cardio progress? Would it be better if, instead of listing each cardio exercise individually, we just had a place to record total time and calories spent per routine?
There are some exercises already created that we could add to the workout as a replacement for the cardio workouts here. They might make more sense for everyone... I know they make more sense for me.

Entering into Daily Burn

mhalpin, I'm having the same problem. This "workout" is an excellent description of the workout and exercises. However, for the cardio routines, particularly, it's not an efficient (nor accurate) way of entering data. I like having the description of the excercises (in case I'm on the road), but I certainly can't enter in the calories burned on each exercise - it goes too fast. All I want to do is enter in the total calories burned (according to my HR monitor) at the end of the exercise. Strength exercises work well for recording reps and weights, though.

Entering into Daily Burn

I am looking to use Daily burn to keep track of P90x. How are people entering in the information? From reading the comments it seems the Calories are off. I am on week 3 day 2 and things are going great, starting to see a difference.
I also noticed that the times are wrong. For Plyo since you are doing each exercise twice you need to double everything.

Wrong calories?

Like NeilB said, these calories seem off. I wore my Polar watch during Chest and Back and got way above the 500 kcal mark, but logging my progress on DailyBurn only awarded me a little over 100. That's very discouraging.

Day 1

bands

Well, the bands get exponentially harder to stretch as you pull them. So, depending on what bands you have, they will resist anywhere from 0-xx number of pounds.
For example, the black band I have will resist 0-30 pounds. So, it's just a little bit of guesswork to know where you are in that interval.

How Many Reps?

Wondering

I love this workout. I frequent the gym and im in week 3 of p90x and I have never worked like this at the gym. Does anyone know if it is ok to substitute running for either the kenpo or yoga days? I like to get my runs in but dont want to compromise my results. Any suggestions welcomed.

Impressed

impressed...

i gotta say, i just finished my very first day of P90x and i am absoutely SPENT. i'm in pretttty good shape also, i play hockey year round and i gotta say, this workout is INTENSE. ab ripper x is named that for a reason! whoever is doing p90x right now, good luck cuz im right there with ya! stick with it!

Semper Fidelis

gotta love the p90x. im in the united states marine corps. im currently a poolee waiting to be shipped to boot camp. and this is why im doing p90x to get ready but damn it kicks my ass too. im 17 years old. so we all shall fight together.

Wow...

Just finished the first day - holy hell I have a long way to go. I passed the required Fit Test (a list of exercises and targets to determine if you're ready for the program) with ease but Day 1 kicked my ass! I'm not discouraged nor am I giving up though. Even a small increase the next time is still progress to me! Stick with it, people! :)

realistic?

I read on some review sites online that this workout is good for people who are already quite fit, and not a great program for beginner to intermediate folks. has that been anyone's experience? is it worth the price tag?

Re: question

there are 8 workouts listed. The first 7 are each done on an individual day. So, chest and back on day 1, pylometrics on day 2, etc. The Ab Ripper is generally done IN ADDITION to your regular workout on days 1, 3 and 5. At least, that's how it is set up in the P90x book.